Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
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Drake has dropped a new diss track aimed at Kendrick Lamar titled ‘The Heart Part 6’.Today (May 6), Drake released ‘The Heart Part 6’, his fourth track in the ongoing rap feud between him and Kendrick Lamar. The track is a reference to Kendrick’s numerous ‘The Heart’ songs, and is also a response to Kendrick Lamar’s previous play on ‘6:16 in LA’.On ‘The Heart Part 6’, Drake responds directly to Lamar’s claims on ‘Meet The Grahams’ and ‘Not Like Us’ that he is hiding an 11-year-old daughter.
On the new release, Drake suggests that Lamar’s disses are based on false information fed to him by Drake’s team.“We plotted for a week and we fed you the information / A daughter that’s 11 years old, I bet he takes it,” he raps, referring to Kendrick’s lyrics on ‘Meet the Grahams’.Drake continues: “You gotta learn to fact check things and be less impatient / Your fans are rejoicing thinkin’ this is my expiration / Even the picture you used, the jokes and the medication / The Maybach glove and the drug he uses for less inflation / Master manipulator, you bid on the speculation“.In those bars, he addressed the cover art for Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Meet The Grahams’, which included a picture of items previously owned by Drake such as pills addressed to his legal name and literal receipts.The feud stems from Lamar’s verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ back in March. In the verse, he responded to J.
Cole, who claimed “Love when they argue the hardest MC / Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me? / We the big three like we started a league” on his guest spot on Drake’s track ‘First Person Shooter’.Lamar fired at Cole and Drake on his ‘Like That’ verse: “Motherfuck the big three, n****, it’s just big me”. Cole would go on to respond with his
.Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar of lying in their rap battle – but said he doesn’t know where the lie about a secret daughter came from.Back in March, Lamar ignited the now infamous feud between him and Drake when he called the Canadian out on ‘Like That’ – a song from Metro Boomin and Future’s debut joint record ‘We Don’t Trust You’. Drake replied with ‘Push Ups’ two weeks later, engaging in a rap battle with the Compton native.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar rap “battle is over”.Last week (May 10), Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith took to X/Twitter to promote the upcoming TDE 20th anniversary compilation album, while also speaking out about the long and recent feud between Drake and Lamar.“This battle is over. A win for the culture, while keeping it all on wax,” he tweeted. “Especially when these publications try to make it something else.
Kendrick Lamar’s diss track against Drake ‘Not Like Us’ has broken records and topped the singles charts.The two rappers have been engaged in a feud for years now, although the beef has come to a head in recent weeks – with each sharing increasingly personal diss tracks lately and other artists getting involved.Now, it seems that Lamar has taken home the victory, at least in terms of chart figures, with his diss track ‘Not Like Us’ debuting at the Number One spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.The track arrived at the start of the month, as the rapper’s third Drake diss in 36 hours. It also saw him making some accusations about the Canadian rapper over his supposed preference for younger women, to the point where he calls him a “certified paedophile”.By topping the charts, ‘Not Like Us’ has become Lamar’s fourth Number One song, following on from his feature on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That’ earlier this year, ‘Humble’, which arrived in 2017 and his verse on Taylor Swift’s 2015 track ‘Bad Blood’.It has broken records too, with Brooklyn Eagle reporting that the track has become the hip-hop song that has been streamed the most times in a day on Spotify – racking up 6.8million plays.Another one of his scathing tracks against Drake, ‘Euphoria’, also went on to do well on the charts and reached the Number Three spot last week after debuting at Number 11.As highlighted by The Guardian, ‘Family Matters’ – one of Drake’s numerous responses to the feud – is placed higher up at Number Seven on the charts, marking another win for Lamar.The beef between the two came to a head last month, when Lamar contributed a verse to Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘, and used the collab to respond to J.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud – has now surpassed 1million dislikes on YouTube.The Canadian has been in a rap battle with Lamar since March when the latter called him out on ‘Like That’ from Metro Boomin and Future’s debut joint album ‘We Don’t Trust You’. The verse caused the two rappers to go back and forth on scathing diss tracks for the last month.On May 5, Drake uploaded the latest song in the saga ‘The Heart, Part 6’ to YouTube.
The Roots‘ Questlove has weighed in on Drake‘s and Kendrick Lamar‘s ongoing rap beef – see what he had to say below.Yesterday (May 8), Questlove took to social media to share his thoughts on the feud between the two wrappers, writing in a scathing post: “Nobody won the war. This wasn’t about skill.”He continued, referencing the rappers bringing their partners’ names and children into the fold: “This was a wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary – women & children (& actual facts) be damned.
Universal Music Group has denied reports that it requested that Kendrick Lamar and Drake end their much-publicised feud.Over the past month, Lamar and Drake have been trading blows over a constant back-and-forth of diss tracks. Earlier this week, Drake dropped his new diss track ‘The Heart Part 6’, on which the Canadian rapper suggested that Lamar’s disses are based on false information fed to him by Drake’s team. He also denied allegations of paedophilia lobbied against him by Kendrick Lamar on ‘Meet The Grahams’.The feud stems from Lamar’s verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ back in March.
according to Eater New York.But Lamar’s mention of it in the song “6:16 in LA” has pushed the 18-year-old establishment to new heights.“My visa, passport tatted, I show up in Ibiza / Lucali’s dwellings in Brooklyn just to book me some pizza,” Lamar raps in the song, a response to an earlier Drake diss track that attacked Lamar’s $8.6 million Brooklyn Heights penthouse.That quick mention was enough to light up Lucali’s Yelp page with a slew of brand-new, five-star reviews, Eater said.“Kendrick Lamar recommended I try out the pizza here,” one reviewer wrote on the site.“Good enough for Kendrick, good enough for me,” posted another, according to the outlet.It’s not exactly a change for the popular dining spot, which sees long lines every day as fans of its fare line up to snag a table, the outlet added.Lucali’s owner, Mark Iacono, told Eater it’s been “business as usual” – and he didn’t know about the rap feud until his spot was caught in the crossfire – and a few customers mentioned the dispute.“We’re 17 years in,” he told the outlet.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar reignited their long-simmering feud last month and it reached a fever pitch this weekend, that saw the pair volleying vitriol; from accusations of pedophilia and spousal abuse to fake abs and faulty fatherhood. Lord, have mercy.As the Post reports, “The rappers’ feud began in 2013, when Lamar featured on Big Sean’s song, “Control,” and sang that he wanted to “murder” several rappers — including Drake.”While the two have a history of throwing shade and casual death thrats at one another this beef has gone from simmer to rolling boil while Mars and Mercury, the primary planets that govern a rap feud, are both burning in the cardinal fires of Aries, a sign that lives to fight and fights to win.Read on to learn more.
“Meet the Grahams,” a direct reference to Drake’s real name, Aubrey Graham. In the song, Lamar calls Drake a “narcissist” and a “misogynist,” and also accuses him of secretly fathering a daughter.
Jay Electronica has shared numerous cryptic tweets, suggesting that he supports Drake in his current feud against Kendrick Lamar.Over the past month, Lamar and Drake have been trading blows over a constant back-and-forth of diss tracks. The latest escalation came over the weekend with ‘Meet the Grahams’, when Lamar alleged that Drake is a sexual predator with a secret daughter.Then, Drake dropped his new diss track ‘The Heart Part 6’, on which the Canadian rapper suggested that Lamar’s disses are based on false information fed to him by Drake’s team.Weeks ago, Louisiana rapper Jay Electronica shared two tweets which fans think is his way of saying he supports Drake in the feud.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer It’s been a very busy weekend in the ongoing rap beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and the latest installment came on Sunday evening (May 5) with the release of “The Heart Part 6.” Drake adds to Lamar’s ongoing, five-part “The Heart” series that he began in 2010 with his own entry, derailing his foe’s bigger vision.
Kendrick Lamar has dropped his fourth Drake diss track, ‘Not Like Us’, in the latest of the pair’s rapid-fire exchanges in their reignited feud.Lamar’s third Drake diss in 36 hours finds him hitting out at the Canadian rapper for his supposed preference for younger women, even to the point where he calls him a paedophile.“Say Drake, I hear you like ’em young/ You better not ever go to cell block one/ To any bitch that talk to him and layin’ love/ Just make sure you hide your little sister from ’em,” Lamar raps.Lamar later doubles down, rapping: “Certified lover boy, certified paedophiles… Why he trollin’ like a bitch? Ain’t you tired?/ Tryna strike a cord and it’s probably A-Minor.”Elsewhere in the track, Lamar accuses Drake of having to “run to Atlanta when you need a few dollars”, going on to argue that “you not a colleague, you a fuckin/colonizer”. Check it out below:It’s the latest exchange in the pair’s feud since Lamar dropped his verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That‘ back in March.
Drake has denied Kendrick Lamar's claims that he has a "secret" daughter. Kendrick Lamar continued their rap feud by releasing his latest diss track Meet The Grahams - which references Drake's legal last name. In the third verse of the new song, the 36-year-old references a “baby girl” who doesn’t have an active father in her life.
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once rapped that Taylor Swift was the only artist he's ever “rated” enough to push back an album release, now he's using her name to diss .ICYMI: Drake, Lamar, and J.Cole are currently embroiled in a weeks-long , which only as Drake and Lamar each dropped back-to-back diss tracks on May 3. But with Lamar's release of “6:16 in LA,” some fans are joking that the rappers are actually fighting over who is closer friends with Taylor Swift.
Drake and Kendrick Lamar have fired brand new diss tracks in the latest series of developments in their feud.Yesterday (May 3), Kendrick dropped his latest diss track against Drake ‘6:16 in LA‘, but now, the pair have traded blows with new diss tracks within an hour of each other, beginning with Drake’s ‘Family Matters’.On the track, Drake sent more shots towards Lamar and his wife Whitney Alford, rapping: “You the black messiah wifing up a mixed queen / And hit vanilla cream to help out with your self-esteem / On some Bobby shit I wanna know what Whitney need / All that puppy love was over in your late teens”.Along with dissing Lamar, Drake took aim at The Weeknd (“a drugged out little punk sissy from the northside“), A$AP Rocky (“Gassed cause you hit my BM first n***a do the math who I was hitting then“) and Rick Ross (“What the fuck I heard Rick drop n***a / Talking something ’bout a nose job n***a“).Drake finally ended his track with a bombshell accusation against Lamar: “They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat up your queen/The picture you painted ain’t what it seems”An hour later, Lamar quickly fired back with his own track ‘Meet The Grahams’, which saw the Compton musician address every family member of Drake (real name Aubrey Graham).He began his track by speaking to Drake’s son Adonis: “Dear Adonis, I’m sorry that that man is your father, let me be honest / It takes a man to be a man, your dad is not responsive / I look at him and wish your grandpa woulda wore a condom / I’m sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him”.To Drake’s father Dennis, Lamar said: “You raised a horrible fuckin’ person/The nerve of you, Dennis,” in which he then spoke to Drake’s mother Sandra,
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer The war of words wages on between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and this time it’s personal.
Kendrick Lamar has released ‘6:16 in LA’, another brutal diss track directed towards Drake.The ‘Humble’ rapper wasted no time in creating a follow-up to his recent release ‘Euphoria‘ – a six-minute-long diss track that sees Lamar call the ‘Hotline Bling’ a “scam artist”, “master manipulator” and question his abilities as a father.Lamar took to his Instagram today (May 3) – three days after the release of ‘Euphoria’ – to share a new track – ‘6:16 in LA’.